| October 18th, 2006 |
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Right. You guys know I play for our city band, oui? Well I was doing so today, and with about an hour left of the practice, the glass in a window just EXPLODED. There was some weird whistley noise like a fire-work or maybe a toy of some sort, and BAM there was this hole in the glass.
So we stopped playing, and went to look for clues!
Preliminary searches revealed an overwhelming lack of any projectile inside. Nothing except for shattered glass. Further investigation revealed a large footprint outside the window (we were in the basement), which likely belonged to the perpetrator. It would make sense that he had just stood there and kicked the window in (for whatever reason) if not for the overhang! It looked more like this than a conventional wall:
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..................... ........... | This area being about three and a half feet tall.
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.................. Footprint> __ _|_Window
Incidentally, that diagram will make no sense at all unless you view it in the same font as is on my front page, and your screen is big enough for it. Sorry, guys.
So, if we're going with the vandalism theory, the person did... what? Crouched down and kicked the window while balancing on one foot? The most logical thought here is that someone was doing chin-ups using the overhang to grab on to, and swung and kicked the window, planted their foot down hard (it is a deep footprint) and then ran for it. Not sensible, but who knows what goes through the mind of punk teenagers. D:< This explanation fails to take into account the weird noise ("FWEee"), but is otherwise plausible. Anyone know if glass under pressure makes a whistling sound?
I guess that explanation is probably the wisest one... But isn't that the stupidest thing to do, if you're going to smash a window deliberately? Swing into it? Unless you were wearing some freaky-huge boots, it would be a pretty big risk to your leg... which is why I suspect that it was accidental.
I dunno. Any thoughts, guys?Current Mood:  Comme ci comme ç a
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